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The Newbery
Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John
Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service
to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the
author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature
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The
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2008 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
- Honor Books:
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
- Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
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2007 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
- Honor Books:
- Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
- Hattie Big
Sky by Kirby Larson
- Rules by Cynthia Lord,
published by Scholastic.
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2006 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
- Honor Books:
- Whittington by Alan Armstrong
- Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell
Bartoletti
- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
- Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
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2005 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
- Honor Books:
- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
- The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and
the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
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2004 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, written
by Kate DiCamillo
- Honor Books:
- Olive’s Ocean By Ken Henkes
- An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of Yellow
Fever Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy
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2003 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
- Honor Books:
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
- Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random
House/Wendy Lamb Books)
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
- A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
- Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)
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2002 |
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- Medal Winner:
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton
Mifflin)
- Honor Books:
- Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
- Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
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2001 |
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- Medal Winner:
- A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)
- Honor Books:
- Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
- Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus,
and Giroux)
- The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
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2000 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
- Honor Books:
- Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)
- Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
- 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (Putnam)
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The
1990s |
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1999 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
- Honor Books:
- A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (Dial)
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1998 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
- Honor Books:
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
- Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
- Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)
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1997 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
- Honor Books:
- A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard
Books)
- Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon &
Schuster)
- The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
- Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)
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1996 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
- Honor Books:
- What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul
Curtis (Delacorte)
- Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon
& Schuster)
- The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)
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1995 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
- Honor Books:
- Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
- The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)
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1994 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
- Honor Books:
- Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins)
- Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)
- Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
(Clarion Books)
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1993 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
- Honor Books:
- What Hearts by Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins
imprint)
- The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia
McKissack (Knopf)
- Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic
Hardcover)
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1992 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
- Honor Book:
- Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
- The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell
Freedman (Holiday House)
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1991 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
- Honor Books:
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
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1990 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
- Honor Books:
- Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)
- Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
(Knopf)
- The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)
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The
1980s |
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1989 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
- Honor Books:
- In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
- Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers (Harper)
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1988 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
- Honor Book:
- After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow)
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)
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1987 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
- Honor Books:
- A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion)
- Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by
Patricia Lauber (Bradbury)
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1986 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
- Honor Books:
- Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
(Lothrop)
- Dogsong by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)
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1985 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
- Honor Books:
- Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (Knopf)
- The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (Harper)
- One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
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1984 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
- Honor Books:
- The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
- A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
- Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)
- The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
(Harper)
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1983 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
- Honor Books:
- The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
- Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (Farrar)
- Graven Images by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
- Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
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1982 |
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- Medal Winner:
- A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced
Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
- Honor Books:
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
- Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)
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1981 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
- Honor Books:
- The Fledgling by Jane Langton (Harper)
- A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
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1980 |
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- Medal Winner:
- A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832
by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
- Honor Books:
- The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David
Kherdian (Greenwillow)
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The
1970s |
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1979 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
- Honor Books:
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
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1978 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
- Honor Books:
- Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
- Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (Lippincott)
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1977 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
- Honor Books:
- Abel's Island by William Steig (Farrar)
- A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Atheneum)
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1976 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
- Honor Books:
- The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking)
- Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (Harper)
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1975 |
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- Medal Winner:
- M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
- Honor Books:
- Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
- My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher
Collier (Four Winds)
- The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)
- Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene (Dial)
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1974 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
- Honor Books:
- The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
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1973 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
- Honor Books:
- Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
- The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (Crowell)
- The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
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1972 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
- Honor Books:
- Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown)
- The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)
- Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles (Little, Brown)
- The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
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1971 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar)
- Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)
- Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
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1970 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
- Honor Books:
- Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon)
- The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures
of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore (World)
- Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele (Viking)
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The
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1969 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
- Honor Books:
- To Be a Slave by Julius Lester (Dial)
- When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac
Bashevis Singer (Farrar)
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1968 |
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- Medal Winner:
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by
E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
- Honor Books:
- Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
- The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
- The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Scribner)
- The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
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1967 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)
- Honor Book:
- The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
- Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
(Harper)
- The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum)
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1966 |
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- Medal Winner:
- I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
- Honor Books:
- The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
- The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell (Pantheon)
- The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz (Harper)
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1965 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
- Honor Books:
- Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (Follett)
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1964 |
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- Medal Winner:
- It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
- Honor Books:
- Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North (Dutton)
- The Loner by Ester Wier (McKay)
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1963 |
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- Medal Winner:
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
- Honor Books:
- Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche
Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger) (Holt)
- Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge (Houghton)
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1962 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
- Honor Books:
- Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis (World)
- The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
- Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz (Harper)
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1961 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
- Honor Book:
- America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W.
Johnson (Morrow)
- Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (Houghton)
- The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George
Thompson) (Farrar)
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1960 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
- Honor Books:
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Dutton)
- America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
(Morrow)
- The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (Harcourt)
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The
1950s |
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1959 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
- Honor Books:
- The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper)
- Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
- Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay (Harcourt)
- The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (Harcourt)
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1958 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)
- Honor Books:
- The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz (Westminster)
- Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt)
- The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (Viking)
- Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko (Crowell)
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1957 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt)
- Honor Books:
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (Harper)
- The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
- Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
- The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads (Viking)
- Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
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1956 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
- Honor Books:
- The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
- The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist (Harper)
- Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
(Viking)
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1955 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
- Honor Books:
- Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
- Banner In The Sky by James Ullman (Lippincott)
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1954 |
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- Medal Winner:
- And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
- Honor Books:
- All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
- Shadrach by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
- Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
- Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
(Follett)
- Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)
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1953 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (Harper)
- Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
- Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil (Viking)
- The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
- Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
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1952 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
- Honor Books:
- Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity (Viking)
- Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
- The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Scribner)
- The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer (Viking)
- The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)
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1951 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
- Honor Books:
- Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
- Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)
- Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
(Follett)
- The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish (Harper)
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1950 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
- Honor Books:
- Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill (Viking)
- The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz (Longmans)
- Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday)
- George Washington by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
- Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin
by Walter & Marion Havighurst (Winston)
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The
1940s |
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1949 |
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- Medal Winner:
- King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
- Honor Books:
- Seabird by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
- Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin (Viking)
- My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett (Random House)
- Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Knopf)
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1948 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
- Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)
- The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine
Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)
- The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold
Courlander (Holt)
- Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
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1947 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes (Messner)
- Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
- The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Harper)
- The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin
L. Teilhet) (Appleton)
- The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett (Viking)
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1946 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
- Honor Books:
- Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
- The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)
- Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston (Scribner)
- New Found World by Katherine Shippen (Viking)
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1945 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
- The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
- Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
- Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton
(Harcourt)
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1944 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
- Honor Books:
- These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
- Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (Viking)
- Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
- Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (Coward)
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1943 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
- Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
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1942 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
- Honor Books:
- Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
- George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
- Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
(Lippincott)
- Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)
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1941 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
- Honor Book:
- Blue Willow by Doris Gates (Viking)
- Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)
- The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
- Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)
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1940 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (Viking)
- Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by
Mabel Robinson (Random House)
- By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
- Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)
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1939 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
- Honor Books:
- Nino by Valenti Angelo (Viking)
- Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
(Little, Brown)
- Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford (Holt)
- Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by
Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt)
- Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
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1938 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman (Little, Brown)
- Bright Island by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
- On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
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1937 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski (Stokes)
- Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones (Viking)
- The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
- Winterbound by Margery Bianco (Viking)
- The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes (Doubleday)
- Audubon by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
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1936 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan) Dean Fish
(Lippincott)
- Honor Books:
- Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong (Dodd)
- The Good Master by Kate Seredy (Viking)
- Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
- All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong
Sperry (Winston)
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1935 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
- Honor Books:
- Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger (Longmans)
- Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
- Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von
Stockum (Harper)
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1934 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
- Honor Books:
- The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
- Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster (Houghton)
- ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág (Coward)
- Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best)
(Appleton)
- New Land by Sarah Schmidt (McBride)
- Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic
Colum (Macmillan)
- Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
- Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle (Houghton)
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1933 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
- Honor Books:
- Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
- The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde
Swift (Harcourt)
- Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon
(Doubleday)
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1932 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
- Honor Books:
- The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan)
- Calico Bush by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
- Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann)
- Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery (Longmans)
- Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee (Houghton)
- Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould
Davis (Harcourt)
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1931 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
- Honor Books:
- Floating Island by Anne Parrish (Harper)
- The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by
Alida Malkus (Harcourt)
- Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard (Doubleday)
- Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams (Dutton)
- Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
- Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Doubleday)
- Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
(Doubleday)
- Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen
(Little, Brown)
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1930 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
- Honor Books:
- A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette
Eaton (Harper)
- Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller (Doubleday)
- Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely (Longmans)
- The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young (Longmans)
- Vaino by Julia Davis Adams (Dutton)
- Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
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The
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1929 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
- Honor Books:
- Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett (Longmans)
- Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (Coward)
- The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock (Dutton)
- Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
- Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon (Doubleday)
- Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney (Macmillan)
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1928 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
- Honor Books:
- The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young (Longmans)
- Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
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1927 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
- Honor Books:
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1926 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
- Honor Books:
- The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery
by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
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1925 |
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- Medal Winner:
- Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
- Honor Books:
- Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
(Putnam)
- The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish (Macmillan)
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1924 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
- Honor Books:
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1923 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Lippincott)
- Honor Books:
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1922 |
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- Medal Winner:
- The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)
- Honor Books:
- The Great Quest by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
- Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall (Appleton)
- The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little
Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen (Macmillan)
- The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
- The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (Macmillan)
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